{"id":15602,"date":"2021-04-11T11:52:12","date_gmt":"2021-04-11T10:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kennethsorensen.dk\/?p=15602"},"modified":"2026-03-06T18:42:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T17:42:19","slug":"the-art-of-synthesis-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennethsorensen.dk\/en\/the-art-of-synthesis-4\/","title":{"rendered":"The Art of Synthesis 4"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

Assagioli presents how a woman can find meaning as a grandmother and as an inspirational woman and gives her view on the differences between men and women.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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By Roberto Assagioli<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong> , translated from Italian by Gordon Symons. Original Italian title: Tipi E Gradi Della Psicosintesi I\u2013 (Types And Degrees Of Psychosynthesis I). From the Assagioli Archive in Florence.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Before proceeding in our examination of the various types and degrees of the unification of oneself, or of psychosynthesis, we must complete what we have said about the different ways in which women can implement their female vocation, at the same time becoming aware of themselves, bringing together and channeling their inner energies, and performing beneficial action towards others.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

We still need to mention two of these ways. We have said that when the mother has finished performing her active maternal function with her children, she must be able to find other activities and other interests on which to focus her inner and outer energies. In addition to the various activities we have spoken of, there is one to which the mother can dedicate herself, and which can become a renewed form of motherhood for her: it is dedicating herself as a grandmother to her grandchildren. In this feminine function, the mature woman, but still internally alive and active, can indeed be, in some respects, a mother again, or rather a wiser, more serene and composed mother. She can partially replace and integrate the work of the mother of her grandchildren. And in this work, as in any gift of true and high love, the woman herself is enriched and benefited. In this continued activity, her inner faculties remain agile and fresh, continue to develop, and she remains in contact with the life that unfolds around her: in a word, she remains psychologically young.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Among the most significant examples, I will mention that of Countess Gabriella Spalletti Rasponi, Founder and President of the National Council of Italian Women, who while with youthful enthusiasm followed every new cultural and spiritual current, going to Rome and hosting […] promoters, from Cou\u00e9 to Keyserling, latterly gave a shining example of that family education about which she had organized a memorable Congress. She, already seventy years old and of unsteady health, wanted to follow closely the education of a young nephew, so she re-studied Latin and Greek with him, to have an intimate knowledge of his soul and encourage his development. There are therefore many beneficial possibilities for the grandmother’s maternal function, which is usually free from the mother’s frequent excesses and errors. But it can often have this a flaw, which must be consciously eliminated to avoid harm to her grandchildren: excessive indulgence and weakness towards their whims and naughtiness.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

What has been said for the grandmother may apply, to a certain extent, to the renewed paternal function of the grandfather.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Another female function which must not be passed over in silence, and which is one of the noblest and highest, is that of the inspirational woman. We have here an example of intertwining and fruitful integration of male and female elements in the same person. The inspiring function is in fact exquisitely dynamic, active and propulsive; in a certain sense, it is a spiritual fertilization, and is therefore psychologically positive, one could almost say virile. On the other hand, the poet and the artist who, inspired by a woman, create the work of art within themselves and then express it and give it life, fulfill psychologically a maternal, feminine function.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n